No permit shall be issued for the drilling of a well upon ground owned by the applicant or held by the applicant under an oil and gas lease or drilling contract from the owner, except by separate written permission of the owner thereof, and nothing contained herein, nor any permit issued hereunder, shall be deemed to grant any right or license to a permittee to enter upon or occupy in any respect, in drilling or production operations, any land except by the written permission of the owner thereof. When a permit has been issued, the same shall terminate and become inoperative without any action on the part of the city unless, within 180 days from the date of issuance of such permit, actual drilling of the well has commenced. The cessation of production of oil or gas from the well after production has commenced, except for mandatory shut-ins by a gas purchaser and except for equipment repair, shall operate to terminate and cancel the permit and, in such a case, the well shall be condemned or abandoned for all purposes of this chapter and no person shall thereafter drill or operate any such well without the issuance of another permit.
(Ord. 18-98, passed 2-2-1998)